Let's see. Never come across Code, Head first Design Patterns - WHY? GoF book is much better, and well written and explained. Read all the rest, though K&R 1st

Let's see. Never come across Code, Head first Design Patterns - WHY? GoF book is much better, and well written and explained. Read all the rest, though K&R 1st edition. Bought 2nd when someone 'borrowed' original from my desk and never returned. Of the rest: Never heard of the first one, but I'm British. My green dragon book was read cover to cover a couple of times, and I tried to build a compiler off the back of it. I used another compiler book in equal amount, I forget the book though. I've three volumes of Knuth. I should have bought one at a time - I got about 1/2 way through the first volume. Design patterns was extremely well used. C++ was mainly reference, unlike K&R it wasn't a good read to learn from. Pretty heavy going if I remember. The Design and Evolution of C++ was much more interestng. Then the 2 Scott Meyers books (Effective C++ 1&2). Thinking in C++ was the book recommended to learn from at the time, though I've not read this.